Former NASA leaders praise Boeing’s willingness to risk commercial crew

“I think if they look back on it, they wouldn’t do it again.”

Politically, Boeing's spacecraft has done a lot of heavy lifting for NASA's commercial crew program.

Enlarge / Politically, Boeing's spacecraft has done a lot of heavy lifting for NASA's commercial crew program. (credit: United Launch Alliance)

The last few years have been pretty rough for the Boeing Company. Its newest generation of 737 aircraft, the Max, was grounded in 2019 after two fatal crashes. And following a series of poor management decisions, the company has continued to lose commercial aircraft market share to European multinational corporation Airbus.

Boeing's defense segment has fared little better. After winning a large military refueling contract, Boeing started producing the KC-46 tanker for the Air Force. But because of manufacturing and design problems with the tanker, the company has taken about $5 billion in losses during the last decade.

Finally, there is Boeing's space unit, which has struggled to adapt to the new era of commercial space and fixed-price contracts. Most visibly, Boeing has competed directly with SpaceX over the last decade in the commercial crew program to deliver NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. So far, things have not gone terribly well. Boeing is running about three years behind SpaceX, which has now launched five crewed missions for NASA.

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Subventionswettbewerb: Halbleiterkrise stärke die Zusammenarbeit von EU und USA

Die Europäische Union und die Vereinigten Staaten hatten ein Wettrennen um Subventionen bei der Halbleiterkrise befürchtet. Nun loben beide Seiten die Zusammenarbeit. (EU, Internet)

Die Europäische Union und die Vereinigten Staaten hatten ein Wettrennen um Subventionen bei der Halbleiterkrise befürchtet. Nun loben beide Seiten die Zusammenarbeit. (EU, Internet)

Social media sites work to limit spread of Buffalo shooting footage

Twitch says livestream of attack was taken down in “less than two minutes.”

An icon for the Twitch app displayed on a smartphone screen.

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Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming site that caters primarily to gamers, said it removed streamed footage of a shooting in Buffalo, New York, this weekend "less than two minutes after the violence started."

An 18-year-old white man used an assault rifle to fire on crowds of shoppers in a Buffalo supermarket Saturday, authorities said. The attack—which killed 10 and injured three, including 11 Black victims—is being investigated as a hate crime after the shooter allegedly posted a lengthy manifesto citing 4chan posts regarding the racist "great replacement theory" as his motivation.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Saturday that the shooter "had a camera and was livestreaming what he was doing" during the attack. The Twitch channel that had hosted that video has now been taken down, with its content marked as "currently unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s community guidelines or terms of service."

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Open source, privacy-focused smartphone coming soon from Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools

Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools has been cranking out a suite of open source apps that live up to the company’s name for years, offering simple apps that offer many of the functions you’d expect from a modern smartphone including cal…

Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools has been cranking out a suite of open source apps that live up to the company’s name for years, offering simple apps that offer many of the functions you’d expect from a modern smartphone including calendar, contacts, keyboard, launcher, music player, phone dialer, SMS, and note-taking apps, among other […]

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Spieleabo: Ubisoft+ kommt auf die Playstation

Und noch zwei Spieleabos für die Playstation: Ubisoft+ kommt mit neuen Games auf die Sony-Konsole – und Ubisoft+ Classics mit Klassikern. (Ubisoft, Microsoft)

Und noch zwei Spieleabos für die Playstation: Ubisoft+ kommt mit neuen Games auf die Sony-Konsole - und Ubisoft+ Classics mit Klassikern. (Ubisoft, Microsoft)

Out, aber nötig? Linke Politik in nichtrevolutionären Zeiten

Strategiediskurs: Auch eine größere Organisation der außerparlamentarischen Linken sieht sich in der Krise, während die Linkspartei bei Wahlen herbe Verluste hinnehmen muss

Strategiediskurs: Auch eine größere Organisation der außerparlamentarischen Linken sieht sich in der Krise, während die Linkspartei bei Wahlen herbe Verluste hinnehmen muss

The Framedeck is a DIY cyberdeck powered by a Famework Mainboard

Folks in the Cyberdeck community have been taking advantage of modern-day tech to build retro-futuristic portable computers for the past few years by taking advantage of advances in 3D printing, the ability to source electronic components from around …

Folks in the Cyberdeck community have been taking advantage of modern-day tech to build retro-futuristic portable computers for the past few years by taking advantage of advances in 3D printing, the ability to source electronic components from around the world, and the availability of versatile single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi line of devices. The […]

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